The Floivering Plants of Western India. 



"Growths of jasmine twined 

 Their humid arms, festooning tree to tree." 



* J". Rottlerianum, hairy, leaves elliptic acute, flowers solitary, or sub- 

 panioled, bracts white lanceolate, prominent. Jungles in Wari (-D.). 

 * J. Ritchiei, smooth or nearly so, leaves long ovate, flowers in lax 

 cymes, long pedicelled, corolla lobes long and narrow. Not in D. or 

 Q. W. Ghauts and Belgamn (#.). The fruit carpels are large and 

 round. 



Several other species are found in gardens. Nyctanthes arlortristis, 

 the night-blowing jasmine, is common, but not wild, a shrub or small 

 tree with rough leaves, flowers white with orange tube, very strong- 

 smelling, falling off very freely in the early morning. Har, singahar, 

 pdrijatak. " This gay tree (for nothing sorrowful appears in its 

 nature) spreads its rich odour to a considerable distance every 

 evening." Sir W. Jones. 



2. SCHEEBEEA. 



* S. swietenioides. A large tree, leaflets 5 to 7 ovate acute, 

 flowers in cymes, small white with brown marks, capsule pear- 

 shaped, rough with white specks. Moka, mokddi. 



The Ghauts, Jowhar and Sind (D.). Widely diffused, but not 

 abundant (H.). 



The lilacs belong to this tribe, but not the beautiful garden shrub 

 commonly called Syringa, which is Philadelphia coronarius. 



3. OLEA. 



0. dioica. Leaves oval, flowers in panicles very small, 

 white, calyx minute, corolla bell-shaped, fruit oval, like a sloe, 

 Pdrjdmb, Karamba. 



The Ghauts ; very common at Matheran. It is very like the jam- 

 bul tree, but the fruit is exceedingly bitter. Sometimes called the 

 wild olive; but see Eleagnus. 



The cultivated olive is 0. Europcea, which I used to dream long ago 

 of introducing into the S. Konkan. But from what I have since 

 read, I fear it would be a hopeless experiment. Apart from the 

 extraordinary usefulness of the tree, it would be delightful to see on 

 these shores 



" The wan grey olive woods, which seem 



The fittest foliage for a dream." E. B. Browning. 

 "No plant yields so much for man's use, and the bulk of its 

 produce is endrmoua." Hooker. An olive branch has from ancient 

 times been the symbol of peace. 



4. LlGUSTBUM. 



L. nilgherrense. A small tree, leaves oval acute, smooth and 

 shining, flowers white and fragrant in panicles at the end of 



